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		<title>“Don’t Be Picky”, by Yazan Abu Hijleh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    Before displacement and before the Israeli unlawful occupation, people had the freedom of choice! The reader feels displaced in time, place, and theme through a narrative that describes Palestine as it used to be; Palestine that we see in old albums, not the one we see in the news! Palestine’s history is based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8220;Ban of Religious Symbols: Artificial Solution&#8221;, by Hind Al Khulaifi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  At the beginning of the 2004 school year, students in public schools in France who refused to remove their hijab, turbans or yarmulkes were to be expelled. The illegitimate law was added to the French Code of Education on the 15th of March 2004, as an extension to France’s existing constitutional concept of “laïcité”, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: &#8220;No room for minarets in Swiss skyline?&#8221;, by Amna Al-Hetmi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[   “This is their first step towards erasing our identity..” and “where is our Islamic loyalty? How could we allow such things to be built in Qatar?” are some reactions to Qatar’s decision of building the first church-form building in the country for Christians to perform their religious customs in 2006. However, Qatar did build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amalalmalki.com/journal/archives/opinion-no-room-for-minarets-in-swiss-skyline-by-amna-al-hetmi</link>
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		<title>“Gmasha”, by Amna Al-Hetmi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amna’s grandfather recalls a part of Qatar’s history that we are now as Qataris very proud of. Qatar’s history involved two narratives; a narrative of the sea and a narrative of the desert. To know our history, we need to learn how both narratives merged into a totally new imagined narrative of the past. To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Woman I Have Become&#8221;, by Hind Al-Khulaifi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[    The notion of change can bring about numerous kinds of feelings. Whether excitement or fear, change is inevitable in our daily lives. Only when we allow ourselves to change from within, do we realize we have improved not only ourselves but our surroundings. With these words, Hind Al-Khulaifi sums up the experience she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t be Fooled!&#8221;, by Douaa Dalle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Stories of occupation and resistance should be told by people who witnessed it. Arab countries have been subjected to centuries of colonialism and are living through a phase of new-colonialism. “Freedom” is an abstract concept that doesn’t mean anything anymore. In defying Eurocentric histories, there is a need to record our own history, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amalalmalki.com/journal/archives/dont-be-fooled-by-douaa-dalle</link>
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		<title>“A day in Albaraha”, By Mohammed Al-Hamadi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Mohammed Alhamadi is a Standards Engineer working in the Quality Assurance Department in Qatar Petroleum, and an art student in Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Although he has already graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma, his love for art has led him to seek a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amalalmalki.com/journal/archives/%e2%80%9ca-day-in-albaraha%e2%80%9d-by-mohammed-al-hamadi</link>
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		<title>It’s Never Too Late to Make a Difference, by Amna Al-Hetmi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  In a biographical manner, Amna Khalid Al-Hetmi sheds the light on the life of Nadira, the manicurist. Nadira is a simple working woman, whose greatness stems from her simplicity. Amna is an Information Systems junior at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.     “Rounda or square madam?” she asked, soaking my fingers into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amalalmalki.com/journal/archives/it%e2%80%99s-never-too-late-to-make-a-difference</link>
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		<title>&#8220;1971: The Black Year in Qatar’s History&#8221;, by Lulwah Al-Thani</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a narrative manner Lulwah Al-Thani records a historical tragedy that was transmitted to us orally; a tragedy that had a major impact on the Qatari society in the early 70s. Lulwah proves capable of narrating our own history, using our own native words and phrases- by translating and transliterating them into English- making it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://amalalmalki.com/journal/archives/1971-the-black-year-in-qatar%e2%80%99s-history-by-lulwah-al-thani</link>
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		<title>““I Must Survive…” – Alya Naqi Ahmed Chandna”, by Myriam Chandna</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Myriam Chandna is a Professional Writing and English major at Carnegie Mellon University. She is an avid reader, writer, and dreamer &#8211; with a strong bias towards the last of those exertions. Here, she narrates a part of her ancestors’ history. The Pakistani civil war in 1971 ended in declaring East Pakistan as an independent [...]]]></description>
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